By Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Michael F. Goodchild, Mark A. Friedl, Ted J. Case
The large progress within the use of geographic info structures, distant sensing structures and spatial databases have made actual spatial info extra to be had for ecological and environmental types. regrettably, there was too little research of the best use of this information and the position of uncertainty in ensuing ecological types. this is often the 1st booklet to take an ecological point of view on uncertainty in spatial information. It applies ideas and methods from geography and different disciplines to ecological examine. It brings the instruments of cartography, cognition, spatial records, distant sensing and computing device sciences to the ecologist utilizing spatial facts. After describing the makes use of of spatial facts in ecological study, the authors talk about how one can account for the results of uncertainty in quite a few tools of study. Carolyn T. Hunsaker is a examine ecologist within the USDA wooded area provider in Fresno, California. Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography on the college of California, Santa Barbara. Mark A. Friedl is Assistant Professor within the division of Geography and the guts for distant Sensing at Boston college. Ted J. Case is Professor of Biology on the collage of California, San Diego.
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The validity of landscape models will diminish as prediction time increases because uncertainty is a cumulative component of models (Rastetter et al. 1992). 2. , projections of state changes at one location over time). Different approaches were necessary for terrestrial, aquatic, and marine models (Hunsaker et al. 1993). Terrestrial plant models did not consider organisms moving over the ground, whereas animal models did. Aquatic models had to consider that organisms were embedded in a medium (water) that moved; only rarely was movement of the terrestrial medium (the soil) an important factor in terrestrial models.
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Designed to capture the effects of water management on reproductive success for colonies of 50 or 250 mating pairs of birds, this model had separate submodels for hydrology, prey biomass, adult behavior, and nestling growth. The hydrology component, which is subject to data collection and interpolation uncertainty, predicted water depth change as a function of elevation, precipitation, and ET for each 1/4 x 1/4 km grid cell. The prey component, which is subject to initialization uncertainty, assigned average densities (10 prey in shallow habitats and 50 prey in deep habitats) of all edible fish for each cell.
